Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel N. L. Parmeter, Royal Field Artillery, who commanded 250th Brigade on the Western Front in the latter stages of the Great War

British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. N. L. Parmeter); Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1919, lacking integral top riband bar, mounted court-style for display, nearly very fine and better (4) £100-£140

Noel Llewellyn Parmeter was born in Merionethshire, Wales, in 1877, and was educated at Rossall School and The Royal Grammar School, Newcastle upon Tyne. Appointed to a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Northumberland (Western Division) Royal Garrison Artillery in 1900, he is listed in the Register of the Royal Grammar School as a land agent for the Towneley and Sleekburn Estates. Posted to France from 22 August 1916, the same source records him as gassed whilst serving with 250th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery.

Raised Lieutenant Colonel, 1st Northumbrian Brigade, in the London Gazette of 10 February 1919, Parmeter was awarded the Territorial Decoration on 4 November 1919 and returned home to Newcastle. A few years later he took centre stage in an article published by the Shields Daily News on 9 August 1923, as Deputy County Commandant of Cadets for Northumberland. Further recorded in the Newcastle Journal as agent to the Beaufront Castle estate, he was repeatedly hailed in the contemporary press as a popular man with ‘the best of friendly feelings between Col. (sic) Parmeter and the tenants’. A freemason, Parmeter died at Windsor Terrace, Newcastle, on 24 August 1935.